Continuum is intended to be sold, so every dependency has to permit
distribution in closed-source commercial software. Nothing recorded that
before: our own crates and npm packages carried no licence field at all,
which made `cargo deny` report them as `unlicensed` errors and left the
actual policy nowhere.
Crates now declare `LicenseRef-Proprietary` with `publish = false`.
That string is deliberately not a real SPDX identifier, so it must never
appear in a `deny.toml` allow list - a third-party crate claiming it
would be a genuine finding. npm packages use `"license": "UNLICENSED"`,
the equivalent convention there.
`deny.toml` holds the permissive-only allow list. The policy itself, the
audit, and the three categories cargo-deny cannot see (external
binaries, ML model weights, self-hosted servers) are documented in
continuum-common's docs/LICENSES.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
octoturgeandClaude Opus 5
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